Students Participating In Demo Threatened Dropout, Anies: It's Out Of Date

Demonstration against the Job Creation Law in Central Jakarta, Thursday, October 8 (Achmad Basaruddin / VOI)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said that local governments and schools do not have to threaten to expel students who take part in a demonstration against the Job Creation Law.

The former Minister of Education and Culture said, if children mistakenly interpreted their role as students and instead took part in demonstrations, they should be given more intensive education.

"It is no longer a time for children with problems to be expelled from school. That is wrong," Anies told reporters on Wednesday, October 15 evening.

According to Anies, if the student has problems, he should get a lot of attention from the school. However, if the student is expelled from school, then the student will not receive guidance.

Given that learning activities are currently being carried out from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers must remind parents of students more often so that their children use their time to do school work.

"So, how to approach these children should be invited to have more dialogues. When the school has started, the teacher will be able to give assignments later, really. The principle is with education , later the school will give assignments," explained Anies.

In addition, when teachers cannot directly supervise student activities in current class hours, the role of parents is needed to supervise their children in carrying out activities.

"Last year, the teacher kept the children at school until school hours were over. Now, I urge parents to educate. That, to leave, you have to say goodbye to parents, let alone go out during a pandemic like this, it is risky. , "he said.

As is known, the Head of the South Sumatra Provincial Education Office, Riza Fahlevi, threatened the children participating in the demonstration to be expelled from school. In exchange, students take equivalent education or package C and are asked to go to schools on the outskirts of South Sumatra.

Not only that, the Acting Mayor of Depok, Dedi Supandi, also said that he would impose punitive sanctions in the form of dropping out (DO) or being expelled from school if there were students who took part in demonstrations related to rejection of the Omnibus Law.